Excerpts (16:30) from an interactive evening-length performance conceived of by Maida Withers that features dance, cyber worlds, ensemble "live" music Dancers using the wireless mouse manipulate in real time computer art combined with images of the SUN from NASA ... more »

Maida Withers Dance Construction Company was honored to be invited to perform as part of the Dance Place 20/20 Visions Anniversary Concert celebrating 20 years of sponsoring and presenting dance In the year 2000, Dance of the Auroras was ... more »

"DIGG explores a timeline of political uncertainties and entanglements with reverberations in time and place until tomorrow, hopefully, when we may stand together as humans on the edge of normalcy"
"DIGG – a fiercely intimate multimedia performance experience created and ... more »

DIGG Promotion video by Linda Lewett DIGG premiere performance at DANCE PLACE, in Washington,DC February 10@8pm and February 11@4pm Visit: http://maidadancecom/works/DIGG/ for information and photos DIGG is presented by Maida Withers as part of the ... more »

An evening of dance consisting of four dance works related to the relationship of man to the Earth:
In Earth's BellyDeep an emergence myth; Moving Earth / Dunes first light of day (1988, Ledge); Mountain Birthing a metaphor, a ... more »

1978 - Baby It's About Time! an absurd and outrageous social commentary event performed by dancers with Washington, DC's most controversial performance poet (maybe first RAP artist), Chasen Gaver Chasen Gaver performed live his own poems sometimes using ... more »

World War II Memorial Site Event created by Maida Withers with six dancers from The George Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance, Washington, DC
Faces of The Fallen
A Moving Tribute
National World War II Memorial
& Lincoln Memorial
Washington, DC
Maida Withers
Script Concept ... more »

1981 - Families Are Forever is a four-part multimedia narrative presented at the Renwick Gallery of Art and the Division of Performing Arts, Smithsonian during the Memorial Day weekend May 28 and 29, 1981 as a tribute to families remembered ... more »

Veiled Threat is a reconstruction of an eight-minute excerpt from Maida Withers eloquent evening-length work, Families Are Forever (1981) Costumes are by Judith Hansen The sound score is original text derived from the genealogy lines of Woodruff Rust ... more »

Excerpts from FareWell - The End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise!
Maida Withers - Dancer and Choreographer
Steve Hilmy - Electronic Composer and Musician
Ayo Okunseinde - New Media Artist
Fare Well is as extreme ... more »

FareWell - To the End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! was presented in Puebla, Mexico in 2009 at Performatica During our residency Linda Lewett interviewed Maida Withers, choreography/dancer, Steve Hilmy, composer/musician, and ... more »

Maida Withers shares the process of creation of Fare Well, as a project, in collaboration with the composer, Steve Hilmy, new media artist, Ayo Okunseinde, poets, David McAleavey and Alex Caldiero and dancers in the USA and Kenya, Africa ... more »

Ayodamola Okunseinde, new media artist, shares his views about art and the Fare Well project Video excerpts of his images are featured along with those of composer, Steve Hilmy, and choreographer Maida Withers
This interview was shot on location in Cholula, ... more »

Steve Hilmy, electronic composer and musician, shares his views about virtual music and the Fare Well project while assembling his instruments for a rehearsal with Maida Withers, dancer, in Puebla, Mexico for Performatica, a national and international dance festival
The performance ... more »

The improvisation performance, Uncertain World, was the first investigation event related to the Fare Well project Movement and music ideas that spontaneously occurred during this performance were carried forward into future explorations in creating dances for the Fare Well ... more »

1994 -JeYoung Kim and Maida Withers improvise in concert in Washington, DC to a poem Fascination, by Young Tai Kim, Korea, that "expresses our inner feelings-sometimes kin and on other occasions, cruel As in life we ... more »

Je Young Kim and Maida Withers improvise in concert, Dance of Maida Withers and Je Young Kim, based on a poem by Young Tai Kim, Korea, that "expresses our inner feelings-sometimes kin and on other occasions, cruel As ... more »

DIGG Promotion video by Linda Lewett DIGG premiere performance at DANCE PLACE, in Washington,DC February 10@8pm and February 11@4pm Visit: http://maidadancecom/works/DIGG/ for information and photos DIGG is presented by Maida Withers as part of the ... more »

Excerpts of a 24-hour Endurance Event by Maida Withers in Washington, DC
In response to the ongoing US military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq Miguel Gutierrez invited artists across the country to participate in freedom of information 2008 The directives were ... more »

1976 - Maida created this 16mm film as part of her educational engagement with dance for children Maida was an active participant in the inauguration of the USA national Artist-in-Schools initiative that brought artists into public schools for curriculum ... more »